Activision Blizzard buys freedom from Vivendi
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/26/activision-blizzard-splits-vivendi
Pretty big move considering they spent $5.83bn. Looks like vivendi is selling to reduce its pile of debt.
Guess this is all on the publisher side of things and won't affect the game companies much.
Anyways thoughts?
Pretty big move considering they spent $5.83bn. Looks like vivendi is selling to reduce its pile of debt.
Guess this is all on the publisher side of things and won't affect the game companies much.
Anyways thoughts?
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That was a pretty big bite but I guess Vivendi has been weakening for a while now. I'm sure shareholders somewhere are dancing in the streets.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-07-26-activision-blizzard-goes-independent-as-kotick-leads-USD8-2-billion-buyout
It's just that they were sucessfull, and then expanded into other things such as games.
But now that they aren't doing to hot (they have been trying to sell activision-blizzard for a while now, must be almost a year or longer by now, it's just that no one was willing to huge price tag they were asking), and (afaik) under pressure from the shareholders they are refocusing again and getting rid of everything that isn't part of that.
so, I don't really see them getting back into games anytime soon.
They don't NEED "HD" versions, they were freaking perfect. You don't paint lens flares and shit all over the Mona Lisa. :poly141:
Just update it under the hood to talk with DX11 and call it good...
"During a panel at PAX Australia today, Gearbox announced upcoming HD remakes of Homeworld and Homeworld 2. In addition, the studio will make original, unaltered versions of both games available digitally."
There's both, caters for those who want the "HD" version, and then the original versions.
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